28 May 2010

Breaking the C-note

And first looks at a prototype XO-3 from Seth Weintraub and Nick Bilton. I like the little key ring thing at the corner, though I suspect that's not its intended purpose.

Plans are for at least one version of the box (how can you call anything that slim a box?) to run Android.

[Nicholas] Negroponte also stressed the importance of the open source nature of the project, pointing out that every aspect of the the project would still be open source. "We're going to go totally open," he said. "In some sense it's the complete opposite of the Amazon bookstore or iTunes, where we'll run anything, including viruses and Flash."

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David Gorsline, full-time professional software developer since 1981, currently a part of the Digital Media team at NPR. Resident of Reston (Fairfax County), Virginia, in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. The opinions expressed here are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of my employer or any other organization.